To make him look black - like a minstrel act.

Questions about music could always put the minstrel off any other subject.

He would have followed her, but the minstrels began to play near the fire.

Minstrel tells her again this is what they're here for.

He really would have been more comfortable with the minstrels.

By 11 May 1373 he was again in the household of the king himself, and as a minstrel.

Before long, he became minstrel to the court of Amber.

It was today in 1847 that the minstrel song Oh!

The Minstrel was not among the early leaders but moved forward to take third place at the turn into the straight.

We know much of what the minstrels do not sing.

What she and Minstrel will provide has little to do with the plot.

She seemed not to regard herself as one of the minstrels.

By then, he had been a minstrel for around fifty years.

You look like the end man in a minstrel show,' I replied.

I gave a small sigh- My boy gone off with the minstrels.

That my name as the Queen's minstrel was known to all.

Who else could better keep watch at an inn than a minstrel?

Talk to the minstrels who were there during the invasion.

The wrong part of space for a minstrel to earn a living, even if he is young and good to look at.

Some minstrel sang it for us the other night, before we left.

I understand that we have a very fine minstrel visiting us.

He once described himself as the "last working Southern black minstrel".

I'd been watching minstrels, and I figured out how to play them.

"That minstrel gave us a good time, at least," one young man said.

The minstrels played on as they would right up until the boarding began.

He had a small part as a strolling minstrel and sang several of his own songs.

"They find out quickly in my courtroom I won't have any strolling minstrels."

You can make like a strolling minstrel yourself.

A buffet supper is also served featuring typical dishes of the colonial era, with period music provided by a strolling minstrel.

Costumed characters and strolling minstrels mingle with the crowds; street vendors hawk 19th-century wares.

"Strolling minstrels.

These strolling minstrels are very popular in Spain, and the tuna in Salamanca is one of the best.

"I'm a Strolling Minstrel"

She had more to say but as auction time approached the young actresses began acting like strolling minstrels, wandering around hollering the novel at the guests.

Several photos evoke nostalgic images of German life: a needlepoint curtain, for example, shows a mountain chalet while another shows strolling minstrels.

Breaking the Fourth Wall - Both Chance as the narrator and the "strolling minstrel" break the fourth wall by talking or singing directly to the camera.

"I pray you, Sir Knight," said Rowena, "to cease a language so commonly used by strolling minstrels, that it becomes not the mouth of knights or nobles.

Washington Street will be closed to vehicular traffic, permitting artists and artisans to erect booths for their wares, while strolling minstrels, clowns and acrobats work the crowds.

A moritat (from mori meaning "deadly" and tat meaning "deed") is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels.

In Nevada City, residents revive traditions from the Gold Rush era, like strolling minstrels and Cornish meat pies, a favorite of the British immigrants who worked the mines.

There were dancing bears, and strolling minstrels and jugglers, magicians who produced bright silk handkerchiefs and would no doubt produce tongues of fire as soon as it got dark.

The showplace atmosphere the company tries to create by filling the Excalibur with strolling minstrels, magic shows, arcade games and the like also help attract hordes of people from other hotels.

So it is a style of performance that has been with us for generations developing through theatrical people such as Greek Monologists, the strolling Minstrels of Medieval England and the French Troubadors.

An itinerant poet or strolling minstrel (also known variously as a gleeman, circler, or cantabank) was a wandering minstrel, bard, or other poet common in medieval Europe but extinct today.

After one of these affairs, while strolling minstrels and a jester performed, a dinner of roast pig was served on tin plates at a wooden communal table, and guests ate with their fingers just as they would have during Henry's reign.

These days, wandering its plazas and cafes, past flowers and fountains and strolling minstrels, I sometimes try to remember that not so many years ago, the main attraction in this mile-high city in central Mexico was a display of desiccated mummies.

I always think maybe the lost child will be found by strolling minstrels and live a poor but happy life of strolling minstrelhood instead of ending up in a house with a tax library, a file-cabinet room, a calculating room and a conference room.

About half an hour into our return hike - just at the moment when I was looking around at the lush vegetation, marveling at the extreme geography, and thinking 'we must be miles from the nearest human being' - we encountered a band of strolling minstrels.

Along with the strolling minstrels and mincing courtiers, Le Brun was a court fixture, creating dazzling interiors for a sticky client - Louis XIV, the Sun King - with help from a retinue of plasterers and glaziers, metalworkers and marbleworkers.

To the Editor: Many years ago, one of the great pleasures of summer was taking a picnic dinner to the lovely waterfront property of the Shakespeare Festival Theater at Stratford, being entertained by the strolling minstrels and afterward seeing a first-rate performance of one of Shakespeare's plays.